Refugee Resettlement Watch is eleven years
old today!
Posted by Ann Corcoran on July 1, 2018.
Am I nuts or what! Eleven years ago RRW was launched because refugees were
being quietly placed in the county seat, Hagerstown, of my rural western
Maryland county and I (and others) wanted some answers about who was doing this
and why.
Our
local newspaper, the Herald Mail,
refused to investigate and write an article that would explain what I
eventually learned, on my own, was that the US Refugee Admissions Program was
responsible.
I
didn’t start out with strong opposition, in fact, one of my initial concerns
was that some of the refugees placed here seemed to have been abandoned in some
pretty lousy neighborhoods.
But….Why the hush-hush about the program? (The secrecy part was what really
hooked me!) So, I
figured I would have to learn about it myself and let people know what I found.
How much time could that take? Little did I know, my life would change
forever.
Since that first day, July 1, 2007, I have rarely missed a day (slowing
a bit lately by skipping Saturdays!) writing about some aspect of the program
and/or more broadly about refugees and immigration generally.
For
me, immigration and how it is managed worldwide is all there is—the only issue
that will determine how our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren
will live. As far as I am concerned, no
other political issue matters!
In those eleven years, RRW has published 9,244 posts that have been
read by people in every country or territory in the world (except one country
and one island group).
And,
if you are wondering, what about those tiny Pacific Islands like Kiribati,
Tongo, and Vanuatu—-yes, I’ve had readers from there as well!
It looks like only people of Western
Sahara in Africa and Norway’s Svalbard Islands have never been visitors to RRW!
Thanks for continuing to read RRW. For new readers, see my category
entitled ‘blogging.’ That is where you can find posts
detailing other facts about RRW with guidance on how to find information
archived here.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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